When I read this today, a was quite saddened. For whatever reason, I identified with Dr. Demento. I remember listening to him when I was 10/11/12. It appealed to me and helped me form my identity today. It wasn't like I was introduced to it, it was patently "un-cool", but the show and the music struck a chord with me. I understood it and I understood there were obviously other people out there who thought like me and were interested in the same things. Call it "geeky" or "nerdy" if you wish, but it was uniquely me in a way that few people around me could even begin to understand. A friend at a time I didn't have any.
Grandma can use that, once a year. The print is too small anyways for her. Of course she actually thinks there is a lady in her phone who answers her calls and gives her messages anyways. (Actually true about the lady in the phone and my Gran, I won't even try to explain about her and ATMs)
This case isn't really atypical of the UK and the EU. Being an American ex-pat who works and lives in the UK, I am always amazed to see how many US companies don't understand the implied warranty and fitness for purpose concepts in UK and EU law. The terms of service of a lot of software don't mean anything, it truly is about if the seller and the consumer are fair and equitable with each other and it is very hard for the seller to be able to constrain the rights of the consumer. Take for example BSkyB for EDS where the contract cap was broken because EDS was deceitful in the sales process about the timelines it would take to implement a solution.
Sorry, this is just plain prejudice. For business purposes EU is one big country.
No it is not. While there are few trade barriers, there are different monetary units (not everyone who is part of the EU has the same currency) as well as different levels of taxation and different intellectual property rights. At best, it is a free trade and labour zone among its members, of last time I checked, the United States was not one of them.
Why do people treat private commercial entities as some sort of pseudo-government entity that is obliged to do business universally?
It teaches them the way the real world works. Do adults do their jobs because "they are supposed to" or "out of the kindness of their own hearts." The real world pays you for the work you perform, why preclude children from that, just because we can.
If it works and it is more cost effective then other types of reform, then more power to them.
If people actually read stuff before the commented, the world would be a lot better.
The letter from IBM is directed at TurboHercules, a commercial enterprise making money off of IBM's IPR. Though we don't see the letter that prompted this, it can be guessed from the letter that TurboHercules said something along the lines "we don't think what we do, because we didn't realise IBM had IPR in this area." Which does seem rather rich, since this commercial enterprise is engaged.
Second the letter doesn't say they are going to enforce these patents, but that they do have US patents in this area. Also they don't appear to be attacking the open source project, but a commercial entity that is making money off of IBM's products.
To your first point, regardless of reason, is fairly broad, and I don't think anyone who argues that doesn't agree with it being overly broad, but there are many many countries that have little to no restrictions on immigration for certain classes of people. For example, anyone who is born on in Ireland has a right to be both a Republic of Ireland citizen or a British Citizen. Also the Republic of Ireland allows anyone who has grandparents or parents born in Ireland to apply for citizenship.
The whole of the EU is a immigration free zone for other EU Citizens. Someone who is a French citizen can move to Germany for whatever reason they wish.
I am an American who legally immigrated to the UK and all government forms are printed in many languages that are not even found within the EU, such as Hindi and Chinese. Legal, illegal and asylum seeking immigrants to the UK have the right to demand services in their native language. While admittedly not everyone agrees with it, there are a many other countries that aren't so openly hostile to immigrants.
Having read a good portion of the Judge's findings, lying about the degree, wasn't the only thing that the guy showed himself to be deceitful about. This wasn't just "he lied about one thing under oath, so here you go BSkyB". It was obvious that this particular individual could throw around lies with exceeding ease. Not a trait that is uncommon in IT Consulting. BSkyB just finally caught someone out.
Well, what about logographic written languages. I have noticed that on average, most western Logos for companies combine a written word with some sort of symbol to identify a company or concept, where as most companies in the east have a single simplified symbol for their organisation. Some people's minds, either inherently or through education seem more adapt at understanding icons then others.
Well, we should really thank the Hindu-Arabs for coming up with our modern digits to make a decimal system easier, otherwise we would have been going around using something like MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMM in our ATM.
Is it me, or is it a silly debate... My first language was some FORTAN and COBOL when I was 10 which quickly progressed to BASIC when I was 11. By the time I was 12 I had LOGO under my belt and the teacher had me teaching the Computer Science labs at School.
By the time your 15, you are past your prime and you might as well pack it in.
Mobile networks suffer from the same sort of problem. If you have ever been at a large sporting event or in an airport, the cells can easily become saturated. They can obviously increase the density of the cells, if the know there is going to be high enough density.
You would think the size and density of cells could be dynamically adjustable in an online world. Something where the resources automatically allocate themselves based on demand. Our biggest problem is being hindered by the sense of "space" and allocating fixed resources to a region. You would think we would be freed of those logical contraints, but I guess it is just a human thing.
While it might not be a consideration now, your formal education can have a big bearing on your future immigration opportunities. For example the UK now requires anyone applying for a High Skilled Visa to have an equivilant of a UK Master's degree, irrespective of your field.
Just to point out that we have to be abrest of the limitations of our chosen encryption scheme. Several of the IT Foresincs have started to exploit some the weaknesses that, while they may not be able to de-code infromation, might be able to identify that encrypted information is there and even what type of infromation might be encrypted.
Legally, in some places, like the UK, you do not have the legal option to not disclose your encryption keys. Your only hope of keeping the government out of your pants is plausable deniability, which can be totally ruined if they can prove that you aren't fully disclosing your information. Also, if a non-government agency thinks you are hiding something, they don't just throw you in jail...
I, having spent my whole career in a do something consultancy, will have to admit to being jealous of Accenture. I can't figure out how they actually convince clients there is value. Basically either we delivered hard grafted value, or we would lose the business, and then even sometimes we would deliver and still lose the business.
The first thought in my mind is as the Supreme Court rightfully upheld their ability to be biggots, we as a community have every right to tell them to go somehwere else and pay for their needs.
Money goes a long way of getting past my social obligations....
First, Stenographic or Stenophonetic solutions are supposed to disguise that you are actually communicating encrypted information, which is 1/2 the battle. If you know two parties are transmitting encrypted information that is sometimes enough (especially in this day and age) to either attack via brute force, or even worse, make them legally hand over their decryption keys, where then you need plausible denability. When the third party doesn't even know you are transmitting information, you are in a much better situation.
First, wide adoption of RTP transmission via TCP is highly unlikely, due to the nature of streaming media in general which UDP is designed for and TCP is not. Fixed datagrams and packet ordering protocol are a major pain in the a$$ for streaming media.
Where as the call control protocol (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc) via TCP is probablly more likely and most standards support transmission under either, though the vast majority is still UDP based.
You are right from a security perspective with TCP you know if information is gone missing, where as UDP you never really know.
Basically (as the Wikipedia article points out) the theory is when the energy "shell" or levels is full or nearly full it creates a stable element. As the number of energy shells get bigger, the further the gap between the stable elements. So certain isotopes would have been predicted around the point where we are observing the unbibium. Obviously it takes a lot of energy to force the electrons into the higher engergy shells, but it is still curious why this doesn't occur in nature every now and again (which now it appears it does!)
Unless she is asleep on the sofa... As my then 12yo cousin did, but had no idea about Browser Caches, so the little guy got caught. When we reconstructed the timeline, because there were 3 males in the house who could have done it, we discovered that mom was asleep on the cough and Dad and Big Bro were out of the house.
I find this totally interesting. It goes to the heart of what is wrong with Microsoft these days... All seperate groups of folks, not talking to each other, to try and do "what is best" for the user, and then totally stomping on each other. Instead of really looking at thread management and optimising the kernel, they cludge together something to make multi media work by simplying saying "in certain situations, I can't guarentee the thread because of a crappy kernel, so I am going to tell everyone else to slow down".
It is these sorts of things and things like the teams and teams debating the "Shutdown Menu" in Vista that are really showing Microsoft needs to really change if they are going to survive. It amazes me how a bunch of open source developers with all their own agendas do a better job then a bunch of folks all paid by the same company. Of course then there is Apple of an example of a group that shows you can pull it off and still all look like the same organisation.
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When I read this today, a was quite saddened. For whatever reason, I identified with Dr. Demento. I remember listening to him when I was 10/11/12. It appealed to me and helped me form my identity today. It wasn't like I was introduced to it, it was patently "un-cool", but the show and the music struck a chord with me. I understood it and I understood there were obviously other people out there who thought like me and were interested in the same things. Call it "geeky" or "nerdy" if you wish, but it was uniquely me in a way that few people around me could even begin to understand. A friend at a time I didn't have any.
Grandma can use that, once a year. The print is too small anyways for her. Of course she actually thinks there is a lady in her phone who answers her calls and gives her messages anyways. (Actually true about the lady in the phone and my Gran, I won't even try to explain about her and ATMs)
This case isn't really atypical of the UK and the EU. Being an American ex-pat who works and lives in the UK, I am always amazed to see how many US companies don't understand the implied warranty and fitness for purpose concepts in UK and EU law. The terms of service of a lot of software don't mean anything, it truly is about if the seller and the consumer are fair and equitable with each other and it is very hard for the seller to be able to constrain the rights of the consumer. Take for example BSkyB for EDS where the contract cap was broken because EDS was deceitful in the sales process about the timelines it would take to implement a solution.
Sorry, this is just plain prejudice. For business purposes EU is one big country.
No it is not. While there are few trade barriers, there are different monetary units (not everyone who is part of the EU has the same currency) as well as different levels of taxation and different intellectual property rights. At best, it is a free trade and labour zone among its members, of last time I checked, the United States was not one of them.
Why do people treat private commercial entities as some sort of pseudo-government entity that is obliged to do business universally?
Sony announced this week they are stopping floppy production soon. Never made /. *sigh*
You mean this article that never made /.? http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/25/0635218/The-End-of-the-35-inch-Floppy-Continues
You almost read /. less then the moderators.
It teaches them the way the real world works. Do adults do their jobs because "they are supposed to" or "out of the kindness of their own hearts." The real world pays you for the work you perform, why preclude children from that, just because we can.
If it works and it is more cost effective then other types of reform, then more power to them.
If people actually read stuff before the commented, the world would be a lot better.
The letter from IBM is directed at TurboHercules, a commercial enterprise making money off of IBM's IPR. Though we don't see the letter that prompted this, it can be guessed from the letter that TurboHercules said something along the lines "we don't think what we do, because we didn't realise IBM had IPR in this area." Which does seem rather rich, since this commercial enterprise is engaged.
Second the letter doesn't say they are going to enforce these patents, but that they do have US patents in this area. Also they don't appear to be attacking the open source project, but a commercial entity that is making money off of IBM's products.
To your first point, regardless of reason, is fairly broad, and I don't think anyone who argues that doesn't agree with it being overly broad, but there are many many countries that have little to no restrictions on immigration for certain classes of people. For example, anyone who is born on in Ireland has a right to be both a Republic of Ireland citizen or a British Citizen. Also the Republic of Ireland allows anyone who has grandparents or parents born in Ireland to apply for citizenship.
The whole of the EU is a immigration free zone for other EU Citizens. Someone who is a French citizen can move to Germany for whatever reason they wish.
I am an American who legally immigrated to the UK and all government forms are printed in many languages that are not even found within the EU, such as Hindi and Chinese. Legal, illegal and asylum seeking immigrants to the UK have the right to demand services in their native language. While admittedly not everyone agrees with it, there are a many other countries that aren't so openly hostile to immigrants.
Having read a good portion of the Judge's findings, lying about the degree, wasn't the only thing that the guy showed himself to be deceitful about. This wasn't just "he lied about one thing under oath, so here you go BSkyB". It was obvious that this particular individual could throw around lies with exceeding ease. Not a trait that is uncommon in IT Consulting. BSkyB just finally caught someone out.
Well, what about logographic written languages. I have noticed that on average, most western Logos for companies combine a written word with some sort of symbol to identify a company or concept, where as most companies in the east have a single simplified symbol for their organisation. Some people's minds, either inherently or through education seem more adapt at understanding icons then others.
Well, we should really thank the Hindu-Arabs for coming up with our modern digits to make a decimal system easier, otherwise we would have been going around using something like MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM MMM in our ATM.
Is it me, or is it a silly debate... My first language was some FORTAN and COBOL when I was 10 which quickly progressed to BASIC when I was 11. By the time I was 12 I had LOGO under my belt and the teacher had me teaching the Computer Science labs at School.
By the time your 15, you are past your prime and you might as well pack it in.
Mobile networks suffer from the same sort of problem. If you have ever been at a large sporting event or in an airport, the cells can easily become saturated. They can obviously increase the density of the cells, if the know there is going to be high enough density.
You would think the size and density of cells could be dynamically adjustable in an online world. Something where the resources automatically allocate themselves based on demand. Our biggest problem is being hindered by the sense of "space" and allocating fixed resources to a region. You would think we would be freed of those logical contraints, but I guess it is just a human thing.
While it might not be a consideration now, your formal education can have a big bearing on your future immigration opportunities. For example the UK now requires anyone applying for a High Skilled Visa to have an equivilant of a UK Master's degree, irrespective of your field.
Just to point out that we have to be abrest of the limitations of our chosen encryption scheme. Several of the IT Foresincs have started to exploit some the weaknesses that, while they may not be able to de-code infromation, might be able to identify that encrypted information is there and even what type of infromation might be encrypted.
Legally, in some places, like the UK, you do not have the legal option to not disclose your encryption keys. Your only hope of keeping the government out of your pants is plausable deniability, which can be totally ruined if they can prove that you aren't fully disclosing your information. Also, if a non-government agency thinks you are hiding something, they don't just throw you in jail...
Is it just me, or should the be data mining for terrorist, not anti-terrorists? It is the War on Terrorism right, not War on Anti-Terrorism?
I, having spent my whole career in a do something consultancy, will have to admit to being jealous of Accenture. I can't figure out how they actually convince clients there is value. Basically either we delivered hard grafted value, or we would lose the business, and then even sometimes we would deliver and still lose the business.
Actually, you do have a point there... It does boost your CV/resume.
Accenture is always looking for fresh faced graduates who can't actually do anything.
The first thought in my mind is as the Supreme Court rightfully upheld their ability to be biggots, we as a community have every right to tell them to go somehwere else and pay for their needs.
Money goes a long way of getting past my social obligations....
First, Stenographic or Stenophonetic solutions are supposed to disguise that you are actually communicating encrypted information, which is 1/2 the battle. If you know two parties are transmitting encrypted information that is sometimes enough (especially in this day and age) to either attack via brute force, or even worse, make them legally hand over their decryption keys, where then you need plausible denability. When the third party doesn't even know you are transmitting information, you are in a much better situation.
First, wide adoption of RTP transmission via TCP is highly unlikely, due to the nature of streaming media in general which UDP is designed for and TCP is not. Fixed datagrams and packet ordering protocol are a major pain in the a$$ for streaming media.
Where as the call control protocol (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc) via TCP is probablly more likely and most standards support transmission under either, though the vast majority is still UDP based.
You are right from a security perspective with TCP you know if information is gone missing, where as UDP you never really know.
Basically (as the Wikipedia article points out) the theory is when the energy "shell" or levels is full or nearly full it creates a stable element. As the number of energy shells get bigger, the further the gap between the stable elements. So certain isotopes would have been predicted around the point where we are observing the unbibium. Obviously it takes a lot of energy to force the electrons into the higher engergy shells, but it is still curious why this doesn't occur in nature every now and again (which now it appears it does!)
Yes, but how do you address storage of private data? Because it isn't all about communicating securely.
Saying you forgot the key, as someone mentioned, only gets you put in jail for perverting the course of justice.
Truecrypt Hidden Volumes can possible give you plausible deniability. I guess that is the only way.
Unless she is asleep on the sofa... As my then 12yo cousin did, but had no idea about Browser Caches, so the little guy got caught. When we reconstructed the timeline, because there were 3 males in the house who could have done it, we discovered that mom was asleep on the cough and Dad and Big Bro were out of the house.
I find this totally interesting. It goes to the heart of what is wrong with Microsoft these days... All seperate groups of folks, not talking to each other, to try and do "what is best" for the user, and then totally stomping on each other. Instead of really looking at thread management and optimising the kernel, they cludge together something to make multi media work by simplying saying "in certain situations, I can't guarentee the thread because of a crappy kernel, so I am going to tell everyone else to slow down".
It is these sorts of things and things like the teams and teams debating the "Shutdown Menu" in Vista that are really showing Microsoft needs to really change if they are going to survive. It amazes me how a bunch of open source developers with all their own agendas do a better job then a bunch of folks all paid by the same company. Of course then there is Apple of an example of a group that shows you can pull it off and still all look like the same organisation.